Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth Borough]
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TABLE G (1)
Shewing the number of medical Certificates (corrected) for the compulsorily Notifiable Infectious Diseases under the notification clauses of the Public Health (London) Act,
Disease. | 1926 | Annual Average, 1921-25 (Borough) 5 years. | Annual Average, 1911-1920 (Borough) 10 years. | Annual Average 1901-1910 (Borough) 10 years. | Annual Average 1891-1900 (Parish) 10 years. |
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Cholera | — | — | O.l | 11.5 | |
Smallpox | 0.6 | 49.9 | |||
Scarlet Fever | 743 | 1184.6 | 904 .1 | 1331.3 | |
Diphtheria | 636.6 | 482.7 | 379.8 | 715.1 | |
Membranous Croup | 9 | 3.4 | 5.5 | 104 | 26.2 |
Typhus | — | — | O.O | O.l | 1.1 |
†Typhoid or Enteric | 7 | 3.9 | |||
Continued and Relapsing | — | 4.1 | 25.7 | ||
Erysipelas | 86 | 175.0 | 347.0 | ||
Puerperal | 34 | 31.4 | 17.0 | ||
*Puerperal Pyrexia | — | — | — | — | |
*Plague | — | — | O.O | O.O | |
*†Cerebro.spinal Fever | 6.2 | 11.5 | — |